how do i create individualized chapter page numbering?

[rachael]

i'm trying to create page numbers in my master document, with non-consecutive
formats per chapter. I want the chapter info to appear in the page number and
the table of contents. For example, chapter one is "setup items" and i would
like the page number to be S-1, S-2, etc. Chapter Two is Daily Student
Activities, and i would like the page numbers to be D-1, D-2, etc. I was
finally able to set the page numbering for each subdocument so that it did
not change the format of the previous subdocument, but some of the footers
remain connected to footers in the previous subdocument so the page numbering
is off. When I try to disconnect the footer on the first page of the new
chapter, Word disconnects the footer from a section in the previous chapter.
I have verified the section breaks, the style formatting, etc. etc. and i'm
just not sure what the problem is.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

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Sorry, I don't have an answer because I don't use Master Documents. However,
you may need the reason I don't more than you need an answer. "Master
Document" is a term of art in Word referring to a "feature" that not only
doesn't work but also destroys documents. The consensus (with the limited
exception of Steve Hudson) among those offering advice on these newsgroups
is that using the Master Document feature is a good way to destroy your
document. It can destroy parts of your document that you are not even
working on! I think John McGhie said it succinctly when he said that there
are two kinds of Master Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that
will be corrupt soon. See
http://www.addbalance.com/word/masterdocuments.htm for information on the
Master Document feature and workarounds. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm for more
information on what goes wrong, and
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm for ideas on how
to salvage what you can. See
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/masterdocs.doc for
Steve Hudson's instructions if you are willing to follow them very
carefully.

For controlling page numbering in a regular long document with multiple
chapters, you can insert section breaks at each chapter and restart the page
numbering there. If you must use the Master Document setup, never, ever edit
the contents from the Master Document view.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Daiya Mitchell]

First, for the S, D, etc to show up in the TOC, Word needs to recognize them
as chapter numbers. If you just type the S and D into the footer, a TOC
generated by Word will not pick them up. These directions tell you how to
set up Chapter Numbers so that a TOC will pick them up--but I don't know how
you can get Word to recognize S, D, etc as a logical sequence of numbers--so
this may not be possible. Read the link anyhow--it might make you reconsider
this plan.
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/ChapterNumber.htm

If you plan on typing the TOC yourself and updating it manually every time
the page numbers change, go ahead and type S and D into the footer.

Second, master and subdocuments have lots of problems. Word Heretic might
come along and help you out, but most of the people posting here don¹t know
much about master documents, because:

Why Master Documents corrupt:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/WhyMasterDocsCorrupt.htm

How to recover a Master Document:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm

Steve Hudson [Word Heretic] on how to make Master Documents work safely:
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/wordhomepage.html

You might also check these links for potential workarounds:

Creating a Table of Contents Spanning Multiple Documents
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=148

See the ³Number Pages Across Files² section at this link:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MiscFram.htm

IncludeText Fields can partially substitute for the Master Document
feature‹for an introduction to them, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/includetextfields.htm

Word experts generally advise combining long documents into one file, if
possible, for the final formatting and cross-referencing, and you will find
more information on controlling those big files here:
http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm